Gardening in Central Florida

Gardening in the rain today... A week or two early, I got some smallish tomato seedlings into the beds. Mostly Juliette (hands-down the bes...

Surprised to see that January in Florida wasn't particularly warm... particularly compared to the rest of the contiguous US. (Alaska,...

A quick note... I've planted my spring flowers, a couple weeks early... Typically I wait until late February to start messing with tend...

What happens when you have more broccoli than the family can eat... Sprouted broccoli tastes fine... Often cauliflower wi...

A long time since the last post. I decided to start anew in my front bed, so I dug it deep and then raked in a cubic yard of c...

I really need to get back to blogging!

One last picture...

Stupid Blogger's gone all wiggy on my background, so, for the moment, something generic... 

Maybe not the most exotic plant in the garden, but tough as nails and sometimes very pretty.

From Quick shots around the garden mid-october 2011

Usually I only get one bloom at a time, but this morning there were four... I love this cactus. I find that keeping them very pot-bound and ...

A quick note: I harvested a small patch of sweet potatoes (disappointing yield), then ripped everything else out of my large garden bed. Rak...

I'm always a bit later than I want to be with sowing seeds. It's been a busy time, and this weekend is the first opportunity to get...

I made the error of putting my first set of seedlings in the garden too early. Hard to say what killed more--unbearable heat, sudden del...

Found on a memory stick...

A reader writes... Hey Michael, my wife and I love your blog, I'm in Deland as well and I'm just now starting my new garden. I...

I was still getting a few Juliettes a day, but they were suffering from a myriad of problems, so I went ahead and ripped out all the remaini...